Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those peo...
I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.
You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.
They keep you doped with religion, and sex, and T.V.And you think you're so clever and classless and freeBut you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You'...
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest...
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives
Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.